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This is Zouma Tang (Horse-Running Decoction) added with Realgar (Xionghuang, 雄黄) and an equal amount of Han Shi Mian (Cold Food Flour), formed into pills the size of mung beans. They are stir-fried with dry sugar until yellow. Each dose consists of two pills, used to treat alcohol accumulation (Jiu Ji).

Use Croton Seed (Badou, 巴豆) (30 pieces, skin not removed), Apricot Kernel (Xingren, 杏仁) (15 pieces), Alum (Baifan, 白矾) (1 liang), and Jujube (Zao, 枣) (10 pieces, pitted). Wrap the medicinal ingredients in 4 liang of steamed dough paste along with the jujubes. Slowly roast over low heat until yellow and cooked through. Remove the skins, mix together, and pound into a paste. Shape into pills the size of radish seeds. Take 6–7 pills after meals with plain warm water.

Use Pinellia Tuber (Banxia, 半夏) (1 liang), Gleditsia Sinensis Fruit (Zaojiao, 皂角) (2 liang, skin and strings removed), Apricot Kernel (Xingren, 杏仁) (60 pieces), and Croton Seed (Badou, 巴豆) (60 pieces). Stir-fry together with wheat bran (5 sheng) until yellow. Discard the bran. Grind into powder. Add 2 liang of Han Shi Mian (Cold Food Flour) and stir-fry until yellow. Use vinegar paste to form pills the size of mung beans. Take 2 pills at a time, long after meals and before going to bed, with ginger decoction. Treats chest and diaphragm [conditions].

Treats deficiency with accumulated cold qi, weakness, and injury from stagnant accumulation in the epigastrium preventing transformation and transportation; or injury from cold qi due to irregular diet, overeating/drinking, leading to hardness/fullness below the heart, pain in both hypochondria, severe abdominal pain, cholera-like vomiting and diarrhea, frequent stools with tenesmus and sluggishness, chronic dysentery with mixed red and white pus and blood, undigested food, recurrence after recovery; also treats vomiting, nausea, somnolence, dizziness, chest and diaphragm stuffiness, limb fatigue, and loss of appetite caused by excessive alcohol consumption; and treats pregnancy-related wind-cold or postpartum injuries where long-standing cold accumulation fails to respond to hot medicines. All these conditions can be treated. For major diseases, recovery is seen within three doses. This medicine is warm but non-toxic, not drying or heating, does not damage stomach qi, nor causes vomiting or diarrhea. It merely grinds down accumulations and eliminates them. It treats dietary injuries and rapidly unblocks stagnation in the Sanjiao (Triple Burner). Prepared now as pills the size of mung beans. Each dose... Ba Cao Shuang (Soot from village household stove bottoms, finely ground, 2 liang), Badou (Croton Seed, 巴豆) (70 pieces, skin and inner membrane removed, ground fine with oil expressed out like powder), Xingren (Apricot Kernel, 杏仁) (140 pieces, skin and tips removed, double kernels separated and ground into paste), Dingxiang (Clove, 丁香) (newly selected, 1.5 liang), Ganjiang (Dried Ginger, 干姜) (processed, 1 liang), Roudoukou (Nutmeg, 肉豆蔻) (coarse skin removed, 20 pieces), Nanmuxiang (Aucklandia Root, 南木香) (rhizome head removed, 2.5 liang). Except for the three ingredients: Badou powder, Ba Cao Shuang, and Xingren, the remaining four are pounded into fine powder. Mix thoroughly with the first three. Seal well with wax. First melt 6 liang of wax... Spring and Summer... Autumn and Winter... Household Formula.